TMA Europe 2017 Annual Conference in London

TMA Europe

Friday 27 January 2017 | TMA Europe | www.tma-europe.org

TMA Europe Annual Conference

Friday 16 June 2017, London

TMA Europe's annual conference is one of the leading events for turnaround practitioners, investors and lenders across Europe. This year's theme is Europe: The Future, with 30 contributing experts.

Included are the following speakers:

Rashmi Dubé, lawyer, mediator and author of "Making a Splash (a personal guide to networking)", will chair a panel called How is Europe Perceived?.

She has been involved in the turnaround industry for a number of years, winning the Corporate International Global Award - Business Turnaround Lawyer of the Year in 2014 and 2016. With 20 years' legal experience, she provides legal advice to protect companies, their directors and stakeholders and, having founded and grown Legatus Law, she also knows exactly what is required to run a business, keep overheads to the minimum, ensure cash flow and understands that having a commercial approach is paramount.

Also taking part in this panel is Andrea Guerzoni, EY Transaction Advisory Services Leader for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa.

Andrea has been with EY for over 20 years working in audit, corporate finance and transactions roles, playing a key role in the growth of EY in the Mediterranean region.

We are also delighted to announce that PLUTA Rechtsanwalts GmbH will be conference sponsor.

PLUTA specialises in crisis management of any kind, offering restructuring services to distressed and insolvent companies. It has 380 employees and 40 offices across Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland with its teams specialising in cross-border cases both regionally and internationally. With more than 30 years of practical experience within a wide variety of industries and with businesses of varying sizes, PLUTA has for many years ranked in the top tier of German restructuring businesses.

Priority booking is open until 30th January for sponsors and anyone who attended the TMA Europe conference in Rome last summer. General bookings will open on 31st January.

For more information on the conference programme or to book your place see www.tma-europe.org or email mcaruana@tma-europe.org

TMA Europe announce keynote speaker for its East European conference

Bernd Mittermair, the Head of Group Workout at the Erste Group Bank AG, has been announced as the keynote speaker for TMA Europe's East European conference in February. Book now

The fourth annual event, which is held to help turnaround professionals working in Central and Eastern Europe debate the specific emerging challenges and opportunities facing this region, will take place at the Erste Group Bank AG in Vienna on Wednesday 22nd February.

The conference will focus on non-performing loans with both the keynote speech and two panel debates exploring some of the ongoing issues surrounding NPLs in CEE.

In his keynote speech, Mr Mittermair will specifically look at the recently-published European Central Bank draft guidelines to banks on NPLs. Mr Mittermair, who since joining Erste Group Bank AG in 1992 has been involved in all major due diligence processes of the group , said his speech would look at the main proposals in the ECB guidelines and how these would influence NPL portfolio markets.

He said: "On the one hand significant transactions have been closed in recent years, and only a small part of NPL reductions in bank books are caused by portfolio sales. But portfolio sales are a sufficient and strong instrument to solve the NPL burden, and taking into account the various costs, including the cost of capital, NPL portfolio transactions can be the best option in terms of recovery and speed."

Mr Mittermair will also call for more support from local governments and authorities to improve inefficient and lengthy court procedures, which can cause real obstacles for investors and only serve to increase the cost of lending for all market particip ants.

He added: "There are many factors involved, and this is a complex issue. What is clear is there is much work to do if we want to see normalised NPL levels in most CEE countries within three to five years."

The conference will run from 4pm until 8pm and there will be opportunities for networking before and after the speeches and debates.

It is free to attend but there is an admin charge of £15 which can be paid when you register at www.tma-europe.org , where full details of the programme and speakers are also available. BOOK NOW.

Save the Date

The 2017 TMA Annual will take place October 23-25 at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. Please check t hetmaannual.org as information becomes available.